As long as you don't have cats/dogs that will eat it, I suggest just leaving it alone. The mouse is in your house for a reason, it's eating and surviving on it's own, and happy to share your home with you. Keep your food sealed, and make sure to clean up any droppings you may find. Even though they're such cute little babies- they do often carry sickness and disease. Share your home, but remember, you are 1000 times bigger than him, let him live on his own. If he wasn't eating an surviving, he wouldn't stick around. I have a couple mice friends in my home, I thought about leaving out food and water, but the less interaction with non-domesticated animals the better. Keep the wild, wild!

This is some of the stupidest advice I've seen on the matter. Do you know how quickly mice breed?

How is it stupid? He said the leave the wild mice wild and not bother them. So, basically, do nothing. Are you suggesting the mouse should be killed? Because I am understanding that is the only other proposed alternative to letting the mouse be.  And what the hell difference does a few mice in the house make? My parents' house has had mice in it for the past 90 years, and it's doing just fine. You seal up your food, and their population stays in check. They're not B movie monsters, moving in and trying to destroy your house with their massive population when you're not looking.

Mice check their own populations, in direct correlation to how much sustenance they can find. If your food is sealed, they won't overpopulate and the females will skip ovulation cycles. Do YOU know how quickly mice breed?

Firstly you're ignoring the hazards they bring from tampering with wires, especially motors.
Secondly you're ignoring all of the health risks that come with mice. They piss and shit all the time.
Thirdly they're kept in check by food yes, but they can eat almost anything, including but not limited to things like soap, plaster, paper.
Those three things alone are usually found in abundance in any house hold.
Fourthly they breed VERY quickly. And whilst small infestations can be dealt with relatively easily. If you leave them for a few weeks then you've got a real problem on your hands if you're trying to get rid of them.

The advocacy of just 'share your home' is ludicrous at best.

The health hazards? Which diseases, per se, have you seen transferred directly from a single house mouse to a human? It takes an infestation of massive mouse populations to cause any form of pulmonary reactions, and that's only if the mice themselves are infected. Like I said, I grew up in an old house that constantly had a mouse population, and none of us were ever sick, ever had allergies or asthma. Think about it: years ago, before we moved into large, brick and mortar houses we lived among animals, in the same areas. We weren't cut off from them like we are today, so it's just funny for people to now assume that animals make us sick now.

Again, like i said early, they will only breed as quickly as their environment allows. They're not stupid mindless breeding machines--they will not produce a litter if the environment is not conducive to raising one. It's too taxing on the female. I don't know what brand of tasty toilet paper you have, but there's no nutritional value whatsoever in TP. They will tear off pieces to built a nest, but did you honestly think they're eating your toilet paper?

Just borrow a friend's kitty (assuming you do not have one). The kitty will catch the mouse and then take the mouse from the kitty and let it outside. But watch the kitty closely  :) When I was a teenager we had some mice that used to come in and say hi, but one of our cats always caught them! I'd shoo the cat away and easily be able to rescue the mouse, since it was playing dead, and let it back outside. It would lay there for a moment, still playing dead, then all of the sudden pop up and run off! I hope you can get the lost mouse back to it's family!

I'm hoping this is a jokey post because if not, I don't even know where to start with the corrections.

I live in a mountain cabin and we have had mice for the last year. My cat kills one every few weeks, and has eaten some. Our dog also ate one. We've not been sick, and the animals are healthy. We have considered getting the electrical repellant machine you plug in, but haven't gotten around to it because it's not really an issue. Co-existing with them probably isn't the smartest, because they CAN carry the plague and other diseases- I just hope these are healthy mice. Our cat has never been happier because he can let his instincts act out (cats think of nothing but killing- look how they play. Even cute kittens love to murder). Their population doesn't seem to be radically multiplying.

We are planning on moving in two months to a city, which is sad, but only for 2 years while my fiance gets her masters degree. We love our mountain town and all the critters around, and there's a health food store nearby but we're the only vegans I know of. Unfortunately people LOVE to fish from the pristine lake we live at  :-[

The worst thing, is when my cat just plays with a mouse torturing with claws and fangs- That usually means I have to put the poor creature out of its misery- and I leave it out for the forest animals to eat.    :'(  The mountain mice are really really cute.

I think that it is large infestations in fithy areas that cause problems.  If they don't have the disease or come in direct contact with humans, pets and their food, I don't think they should be too much to worry about, IMHO.  We have rodents that have been running around our backyard for years.  No one has become sick, yet. 

Cleaning up makes a big difference.  Since I cut off the free food and nice housing, they have left.  I only occasionaly see rodents running along the fence to other peoples houses.

I meant that large infestations that happen to be in a filthy area spreads disease.  Not that infestations are the result of filth.  I didn't mean to accuse anyone of being unclean.

Put that fruit in sealed containers and that will end it's days of free lunches. 

Well, how much can you fit into your fridge?  That's a giant sealed container.

BigLots sells small container for $2-6.  That's what I bought for my grain and beans.  Ask around, too.  People usually have a few extra lying around, especially if they or their relatives ever sold tupperware.

Write a Dr. Seuss book about it.

:P sorry, couldn't resist!

I had two mice in my house in May. I caught them both by putting a nice juicy strawberry on my counter with a box balancing on a stick over it. I just sat and waited while i read a book. Within a half hour, the little guys could not resist and when they took the bait, I dropped the box. I set both of them free (strawberry included) in the park down the street from where I live.